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Percy Lanchester

Date released

24 Dec 1936

Series name

New Series Pictorial

Issue no

39

NoS ID

115500

Story no

8 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

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Waldo and Muriel Lanchester’s Marionette Master Class (1985 Video)

Director

Douglas Fisher

Producer

Douglas Fisher

Subject

Art; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

Begins with a brief introduction to puppetry: shadow, rod, glove and string puppets (marionettes). Introduces Waldo and Muriel Lanchester at their marionette theatre in Malvern during the early 1940s. The...

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King Lear (2002 Television)

Series

Theatre in America

Director

Edwin Sherin

Producer

Joseph Papp

A televised production of the staging first performed at the 1973 New York Shakespeare Festival. James Earl Jones is Lear. The cast is ethnically diverse - Lear and his daughters are black, Gloucester is...

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Media Screen Roundup - June 2014

Date

15 Jul 2014, 10:34

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Highlights for this month’s Roundup...

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They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That...

Date released

28 Oct 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2056

NoS ID

027607

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That. DESCRIPTION: A new British Record - nearly a hundred and twenty-two thousand pounds - is set by a Sotheby’s auction of Veteran, Vintage and...

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Gallant "Old Crocks"

Date released

22 Nov 1928

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1557

NoS ID

087251

Story no

5 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

30 of 34 starters complete journey in under 4 1/2 hours schedule time - the 27 year old Lanchester in 2 hours.

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David Copperfield (1935)

Director

George Cukor

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £14.99

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Frankenstein (1931)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £19.99

Classic 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Boris Karloff. The DVD also includes the 1935 sequel, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in which Elsa Lanchester plays the bride as well as Shelley herself.

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Conflict (1985 Video)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Looks at Lanchester’s famous ‘square law’ used to predict the outcome of a battle from knowing the firepower of each unit and the number of units. Uses a computer simulation of a battle to demonstrate...

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News & Sports Pageant of Movietone by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: All the Stars at Theatrical Garden Party

Date released

23 Jun 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

472A

NoS ID

008937

Story no

10 / 11

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Theatrical Garden Party. SHOTLIST: Noel Coward fishes for champagne as does Charles Laughton who is accompanied by his wife, Elsa Lanchester. Also present are Leslie Banks, Marie...

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